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Filed Oct. 24, 1957 May 10, 1960 E- G. DAHLMAN BUILDING STRUCTURES 2Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR Erik Georg Dab/man ATTORNEYS United StatesPatent I BUILDING STRUCTURES Erik Georg Dahlman, Malmo, Sweden, assignorto Broby Mek. Verkstads Aktiebolag, Broby, Sweden, a corporationofSweden Application October 24, 1957, Serial No. 692,218

Claims priority, application Sweden November 1, 1956 3 Claims. (Cl.214-161) This invention relates to muIti-storied building structureswith flats such as apartments, oflices or the like in the differentstories and with balconies outside the flats for the parking of motorcars thereon.

The primary object of the invention is to provide a building structurein which the balconies are arranged in vertical series and have theirone sides, which face in the same direction, connected to an elevatorshaft which is common to the balconies in one or more series and fromwhich the balconies may be shut off by means of gates or the like. Bythis arrangement the tenants of the dilferent apartments in the buildingwill have their motor cars available on the balconies directly outsidetheir apartments so that on leaving the apartment the tenant can getinto his car and take the elevator down or on arriving home can take theelevator up, drive onto the balcony, step out of his car and directlyenter his apartment.

By reason of the large and ever increasing number of motor cars a carowner often has to park his car at a very large distance from hisapartment or his place of work. Hemay thus have to walk a considerabledistance from the parking area to his final goal, and more- 1 over itoften takes a long time a find a suitable parking space. The presentinvention not only makes for an increased convenience of the car ownerbut also eliminates the risk of the car or its equipment being stolen orapart and whose facing sides 6 are entirely open. Said sides 6 mayhowever be closed by means of gates 7 or the like, as isdiagrammatically indicated by dash and dot lines. The sides 6 face anelevator shaft 8 which like the balconies 5 is arranged on the outsideof the building and preferably opposite'the stair well 3 in thebuilding. The balconies 5 in the different stories 1 will thus form twovertical series grouped around each elevator shaft 8. All apartments 2of the building need not have car parking balconies -5, and sothere maybe provided between the apartments grouped around the elevator shafts 8apartments 2c without any balconies for the parking of cars thereon.

An elevator 9 diagrammatically shown in Fig. 4 is arranged in theelevator shaft 8 and preferably has its longitudinal sides provided withelevated portions 10.

The balconies 5 preferably have corresponding elevated means (not shown)may be arranged to define the position of the car in the elevator 9 andon the balcony 5,

damaged. By garaging the motor cars in a building structure according tothe invention a very large area is made free in the ground plane so thatthe buildings can be grouped considerably closer together than whenlarge areas must be reserved for the parking of motor cars outside thebuildings in the usual manner. The additional costs required in a tallbuilding for the necessary car elevator and the somewhat largerbalconies according to the invention are so insignificant that it willbe cheaper for the tenants to keep their cars in a building structureaccording to the invention than to garage them in the manner hithertousual.

Further objects of the invention and the advantages gained thereby willappear from the following description, reference being had to a suitableembodiment diagrammatically shown in the accompanying drawings in which:

Figs. 1 and 2 are two side elevations of the building strucutre, takenat right angles to each other;

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the building structure; and

Figs. 4 and 5 are a horizontal and vertical section, respectively, ofpart of the building structure.

In the drawings, the different stories of the building are designated 1.The flats such as apartments, oflices and the like in each story 1 aredesignated 2. In modern apartment houses several apartments 2 aresymmetrically arranged around a stair well 3 containing a respectively,said stop means being mounted in such a way as to permit swinging themaside. A door 12 leads from the apartment 2 to the balcony 5. In theembodiment shown in the drawings the sides 13, 14 of the balcony 5 whchface away from the building are formed by a railing 15 all cast inconcrete and ending at a relatively large distance from the overlyingbalcony. Mounted at the underside of the last-mentioned balcony anddepending therefrom is a preferably transparent shield or protection 16which either ends some distance above the upper edge of the railing 15or is formed by doors or windows that can be opened and closed. Saidshield protects the car parked on the balcony 5 from falling rain andsnow, ensures exchange of air and prevents exhaust gases from the carfrom penetrating into the apartment.

It is readily understood that the invention can be modified to a verylarge extent. Thus it is possible to provide existent buildings withbalconies and elevators according to the invention. The balconies 5 aswell as the elevator shafts 8 around which the balconies 5 are groupedmay lie within the contours of the building. In that case, however, thebalconies 5 must be formed in such a way as to be open towards thefacade of the building to permit ventilation of the exhaust gases fromthe cars parked on the balconies.

Further modifications are possible within the scope of the inventionsuch as it is defined in the appended claims. I

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A multi-story building structure having a plurality of spaces on eachfloor, a plurality of .balconies on said building structure, saidbuilding structure having openings therein between balconies and thespaces on each floor, said balconies being in a plurality of verticalseries with each balcony in each series being on a level with a floor ofsaid building structure, said series of balconies being in pairs spacedfrom each other and the balconies in each series having openings on thesides facing the other series of balconies of the pair, a wall betweenthe outer edges of the balconies in each pair of the series defining anelevator shaft between said wall, said balconies and said buildingstructure, an elevator in said shaft having only one platform, and gatemeans on each of said balconies for closing the openings therein, saidbalconies and said elevator platform having guide means thereon forguiding the wheels of an automobile.

2. A multi-story building structure having a plurality of spaces on eachfloor, a plurality of balconies on said building structure, saidbuilding structure having openings therein between balconies'and thesp'aces on each (floor, said balconies being in a plurality of verticalseries with each balcony in each series being on a level with a floor ofsaid .buildingstructure, said series of balconies being in pairs spacedfrom each other and the balconies in each series having openings on thesides facing the other series of balconies of the pairs, a wall betweenthe outer edges of the balconies in each pair of the series defining anelevator shaft between said wall, said balconies and said buildingstructure, an elevator in said shaft having only one platform, and gatemeans on each of said balconies for closing the openings therein, saidbalconies and said elevator platform each having a depression therein inwhich the wheels of an automobile can roll, the depressions in saidbalconies being aligned with the depression in said elevator platformwhen said platform is on a level with a balcony.

,3. In a multi-story apartment building having a plurality of apartmentson each fioor, a plurality of external automobile storage balconies onsaid building structure, each on a level with a floor and adjacent anapartment, said building structure having doorway openings thereinbetween the automobile storage balconies and the adjacent apartments oneach floor, each apartment and external automobile storage balconyjoined by said doorway opening constituting a unit separate from theremaining units constituted by the remaining apartments and externalautomobile storage balconies, said automobile storage balconies being ina plurality of vertical series, said series of automobile storagebalconies being in pairs spaced from each other and the automobilestorage balconies in each series having openings on the sides facing theother series of balconies of the pair, said. apartment house and a pairof series of automobile storage balconies defining an elevator shaftbetween them, an automobile elevator in said shaft having only oneplatform, and gate means on each of said automobile storage balconiesfor closing the openings therein. 7

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